Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power | 1993 | Publications
Nationalism, the Mass Army, and Military Power
Barry R. Posen
International Security Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 1993) [Later published in John L. Comaroff and Paul C. Stern, eds., Perspectives on Nationalism and War (Overseas Publishers Association, 1995)]
Several of the elements of nationalism long stressed by scholars of the subject are caused or intensified by the task of preparation for warfare, and by the experience of warfare, particulalry "mass mobilization" warfare.